Question

Use your homework reading to identify a reason Americans would have supported the Vietnam War AND a reason Americans would not have supported the Vietnam War.

Answer 1

Answer:

Americans might have supported the Vietnam War for several reasons:

• Anticommunism: the vast majority of Americans are anticommunist, and America was to fight a communist army in Vietnam.
• Nationalism: some people are nationalists and tend to support most things their government does.
• Concern for Vietnamese people: it was well-known by then what the communist regimes in the Soviet Union, North Korea, and China had brought to their respective countries, and many americans might have felt worried about the same thing hapenning to the Vietnamese.

Americans might have oopposed the Vietnam War for several reasons:

• Anti-interventionism: some people opposed any form of American intervention abroad, and believe other countries should be left alone to decide by themselves what they want for their future.
• Pacifism: some people oppose war because they are pacifists. They believe that the death and destruction that wars bring are never justified.
• Ideological affiliation: some people may hold a communist ideology, and support the creation of communist governments abroad.